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Lauryn Hill vents about racism, slavery and IRS in open letter

Lauren Hill departs the court on May 6, 2013 in Newark, New Jersey. Hill plead guilty to tax evasion charges in June 2012 for failure to pay federal taxes on $1.8 million earned from 2005-2007. She faces a maximum one-year jail sentence for each of the three accounts. The sentencing date was postponed from April 22nd. (Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images)

The post, entitled “MLH On Racism,” opens addressing the concept of “reverse racism,” calling it “flawed, if not absolutely ridiculous.”

In the paragraphs that follow, Hill says black people remain, “in many ways a shattered community, disenfranchised, forcefully removed from context and still caged in, denied from making truly independent choices and experiencing existential freedom.”

She went on to reference her personal tax problems by saying, “taxation without proper representation, might I remind you, was the very platform of protest that began the Revolutionary War.”

“I shuddered during sentencing when I kept hearing the term ‘make the IRS whole,'” the singer said. “The entire time, I thought, who has made black people whole?!”